TheCrowdCafe Weekly: Own Your Neighborhood | Slate

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

TheCrowdCafe weekly • Issue #11 – June 10, 2013 • • Share on Twitter! •  Aloha! Hope you all had a fantastic week. Here’s our curated summary of this week’s happenings in the crowdfund investing ecosystem. Give me a shout at [email protected] if you have any questions or updates! Selected Articles Own Your Neighborhood | Slate I disagree …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News : Carbon dioxide at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory reaches new milestone: Tops 400 parts per million

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Carbon dioxide at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory reaches new milestone: Tops 400 parts per million Sacred lotus genome sequence enlightens scientists Revealing hidden fungal species using DNA: The importance of recognizing cryptic diversity Earliest archaeological evidence of human ancestors hunting and scavenging Kestrels, other urban birds …

NowStreet Events Update

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

  Transform the Markets, Change the World! Join us at upcoming NowStreet Events Crowdfunding Shark Attack Atlanta April 18, 2013 Hosted by the Ritz Group and NowStreet, the Crowdfunding Shark Attack is the culminating event resulting from a month-long crowdfunding awareness program. This nationally webcast event will feature three crowdfunding industry experts (sharks) …

Suzlon issues $650m wind bond, credit-enhanced by State Bank of India – first step in growing an Indian corp climate bond mkt?

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Suzlon issues $650m wind bond, credit-enhanced by State Bank of India – first step in growing an Indian corp climate bond mkt? Posted on 26. Mar, 2013 by Sean Kidney in blog USD-denominated, 5 year, 4.97%, Baa2. India had been trying to get a corporate bond market going for 15 years – search “growing …

Global Trends 2030 report from the U.S. National Intelligence Council

Ethical MarketsTrendspotting

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds is the fifth installment in the National IntelligenceCouncil’s series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future. As with previouseditions, we hope that this report will stimulate strategic thinking by identifying critical trends andpotential discontinuities. We distinguish between megatrends, those factors that will …

Announcing the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2012; WorldBlu LIVE opens for registration!

kristyGlobal Citizen, Trendspotting

Announcing the 6th Annual WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces! The WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2012 is our most global list to date, with organizations from six continents now certified. The WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces? 2012 is comprised of 48 organizations from a diversity of industries …

GRACEnotes November: State of Clean Energy, Questionable Salmon and the Value of Water

kristyCommunity Development Solutions, Sustainability News

GE Salmon: Swimming Away with Subsidies: Despite the potential environmental threat posed by genetically engineered fish, biotech corporation AquaBounty has received more than $2.4 million in federal research grants since 2003 to support its GE salmon project. water Through Art, the Value of Water Expressed: As the most common chemical …

WorldBlu Certifies 52 Organizations as “Democratic Workplaces”

kristySRI/ESG News

A press release from CSR Wire CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Apr. 12 /CSRwire/ – Fifty-two organizations have been recognized for the fifth annual “WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces™ 2011,” a global certification given by WorldBlu, a company specializing in organizational democracy. The announcement came as part of the fifth annual “Democracy in …